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ATHENS— Greece’s former Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis has been indicted and will stand trial for allegedly promoting the use of drugs, his left-wing MeRA25 party said in a statement Wednesday. The former politician, who served in the left-wing Syriza government during the country’s financial crisis in 2015 and remains a darling of the European left, […]

Labour aides said the pair came to a mutual agreement for him to step down following the spring statement. It’s a move that may cheer left-wing Labour MPs who were glad to see McSweeney leave this month in the wake of the Peter Mandelson crisis, but leaves the party with another senior vacancy. “We have […]

Here’s everything you need to know about the battle for Gorton and Denton. Why it matters Gorton and Denton is the prime minister’s biggest electoral test since last May, when Nigel Farage’s Reform UK snatched Runcorn and Helsby (also in north west England) off Labour by just six votes. On the same night, Reform also […]

Le traité révisé ouvre la voie à une plus grande intégration de l’économie mexicaine, fortement axée sur la production manufacturière, avec l’industrie européenne, en particulier dans le secteur automobile. Il ouvre également la voie à une augmentation des investissements européens au Mexique. Pour ce dernier, il s’agirait d’un moyen de réduire sa dépendance écrasante à […]

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Without an agreement, the U.K. can still take part in joint procurement projects in which a maximum of 35 percent of the value of a weapons system is paid for by the scheme. The U.K. had been negotiating for a higher percentage, which would benefit the country’s large arms industry. The armed forces minister predicted: […]

Die AfD kämpft an mehreren Stellen und diesmal kommt der Druck von innen. Recherchen von Pauline von Pezold und Frederik Schindler zeigen, wie sehr Vorwürfe rund um Vetternwirtschaft und Überkreuz-Anstellungen die Parteispitze um Alice Weidel und Tino Chrupalla belasten. Drohen nun personelle Konsequenzen und trifft es am Ende ausgerechnet denjenigen, der die Missstände öffentlich gemacht […]

Since the war in Ukraine started, Russia’s Vladimir Putin has made repeated nuclear threats, also updating the country’s doctrine to lower the threshold that would trigger a nuclear strike. In the past few years, several Cold War-era treaties that limited nuclear arsenals have also expired. The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, known as INF, ended in […]

Trump met with Putin in Alaska in August 2025 without any European participation, fueling concern on the continent that Washington was trying to end the war without any input from Ukraine or Europe. Trump has repeatedly shifted his tone on the conflict and did not issue a public statement in support of Ukraine on the […]

Brussels and Kyiv are also looking ahead to the April 2027 French presidential election, in which the far-right National Rally, which has been Kremlin-friendly in the past, is ahead in the polls. The fear is that if Marine Le Pen’s party wins the presidency before Ukraine is offered a place inside the EU, it could […]